frostwork

Example Sentences

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Every clambering vine, every weed and dried leaf wore a coat of lace-webbed frostwork.

From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Stratton-Porter, Gene

A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.

From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.

Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.

From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

They jewelled the grille of frostwork and flung a sprinkle of gold on the falling water.

From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Bacheller, Irving

Many of his tragedies abound in imaginative pictures, while there are not in the realm of Fancy's fairy frostwork more exquisite representations than those found in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry